Gangsta Paradise

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

I take a look at my life and realize nothing’s left

Cause I’ve been blasting and laughing so long that even

My mama thinks my minds gone but I ain’t never crossed

A man that didn’t deserve it.

Me be treated like a punk, you never unheard of

You better watch how you’re talking and where you’re walking

Or you and your homies might lined the chalked

I really hate the trip but I gotta loc

As the croak I see myself in the pistol smoke

Fool! I’m the kinda g that little homies wanna be like

All my knees in the night

Saying prayers in the street light..

Been spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise

Keep spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise

Look at the situation, they got me facing

I can never live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes

So I gotta be down with the hood team

Too much television watching got me chasing dreams

I’m a educated fool with money on my mind

Got my tin in my hand and a gleam in my eye

I’m a loc’d gangsta set trippin banger

And my homies is down so don’t arouse my anger

Fool! death ain’t nothing but a heartbeat away

I’m living life, do or die what can I say

I’m twenty-three now , will I ever see twenty-four

The way things are going I don’t know

Tell me why are we so blind to see

That the ones we hurt are you and me

Been spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise

Keep spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise

Power in the money , money in the power

Minute after minute, hour after hour

Everybodys running but half of them ain’t looking

What’s going on in the kitchen but don’t know what’s cookin’

They say I gotta learn but nobody’s here to teach me

I guess they can’t , I guess they won’t , I guess they fornt

That’s why my life is outta love fool !

Been spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise

Keep spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise

Tell me why are we so blind to see

That the ones we hurt are you and me

Tell me why are we so blind to see

That the ones we hurt are you and me